Jakob Hommes

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Jakob Hommes (born October 12, 1898 in Völklingen ; † July 10, 1966 in Munich ) was a German Catholic philosopher, writer, university professor and university rector.

Life

Jakob Hommes studied at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , among others with Joseph Geyser . In 1925 he received his doctorate in Munich . In 1927 he married Ria Ecker, with whom he had a total of eight children. He was still a university assistant in Munich until 1931 and went to Freiburg im Breisgau in 1931 , where he was chief editor at Herder Verlag from 1931 to 1954 . His son Ulrich was born in Freiburg in 1932 .

In the Christian debate about the emergence of National Socialism in Germany in 1933/34, he was in the affirmative with his view at the time. According to Rainer Bendel's evaluation, the state, economic and cultural will of National Socialism turned out to be a "breakthrough of the full natural law" and meant for him the "re-enforcement of the organic community and cultural constitution, the return to the order of nature and creation."

His survey documents requested by the denazification commission are in the archive of the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. In 1946 he was allowed to do his habilitation at the Philosophical Faculty there with a thesis published in 1953 on the subject of the existential place and the method of ontology .

In his research he focused on the existential and existential philosophy of the 20th century. So he also dealt with the late philosophy of Martin Heidegger and his question about the "essence of technology". The thinking of Thomas Aquinas and the discussion with Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Karl Marx played an essential role for him .

In 1953 he became an associate professor , in 1956 a full professor at the Philosophical-Theological University in Regensburg . From 1959 to 1965 he was rector of the university. In the last years of his life he campaigned for the transfer of the Philosophical-Theological College to a full faculty at the University of Regensburg, founded in 1962 . In August 1962 he was appointed as a member of the organizing committee and in 1963 the board of trustees for the University of Regensburg.

Publications (selection)

  • The basic philosophical teachings of Nikolaus Kusanus about God and God's relationship to the world. [At the same time diss. Philosophical Faculty of LMU Munich, 1925], Benno Filser Verlag, Augsburg 1926.
  • Philosophy of life and education as a national and catholic task. Herder publishing house, Freiburg i. Br. 1934.
  • Ambivalent existence. The existential ontology from Hegel to Heidegger. Herder publishing house [in Komm.], Freiburg i. Br. 1953.
  • The technical eros. The essence of the materialistic conception of history. Herder publishing house, Freiburg i. Br. 1955.
  • Communist ideology and Christian philosophy. Federal Center for Homeland Service, Bonn 1956.
  • Coexistence - illuminated philosophically. Federal Center for Homeland Service, Bonn 1956.
  • Crisis of freedom. Hegel, Marx, Heidegger. Friedrich Pustet Publishing House, Regensburg 1958.
  • Dialectics and politics. Lectures and essays on philosophy in the past and present. With an introduction and bibliography edited by Ulrich Hommes. JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 1968

literature

  • Hommes, Jakob. In: Lexicon for Theology and Church , Verlag Herder, Freiburg i. Br. 1993, p. 251. ISBN 978-3-451-22005-0
  • Hommes, Jakob. In: Roswitha Grassl; Peter Richart-Willmes: Thinking in its time. A personal glossary on Richard Hönigswald's environment. Königshausen & Neumann, 1997, pp. 55–56. ISBN 978-3-826-01275-4
  • Walter M. Neidl, Friedrich Hartl (Hrsg.): Person and function. Festschrift to commemorate the hundredth birthday of Jakob Hommes. Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 1998. ISBN 978-3-791-71606-0
  • Friedrich J. Bassermann: A young university and an elderly student. The philosopher Prof. Dr. Jakob Hommes (1898–1966) in grateful memories. In: Regensburger Almanach 1990 (1989), pp. 196-204.
  • Hommes, Jakob. In: Hans-Michael Körner (Ed.): Large Bavarian Biographical Encyclopedia. Volume 1. Sauer, Munich 2005, pp. 606-607. ISBN 978-3-110-97344-0

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Karl Birkenseer: The homeliness of the world. Jakob Hommes - on the 100th birthday of a combative philosopher. Mittelbayerische Zeitung, 17./18. October 1998.
  2. ↑ Hommes, Jakob. In: Who is who? The German Who's Who. Ed. 15, Arani, 1967, p. 806.
  3. ↑ Rainer Bendel: The Catholic Guilt? Catholicism in the Third Reich between arrangement and resistance. LIT publishing house. Münster 2002, p. 209. ISBN 978-3-825-86334-0
  4. ↑ Third Reich. Fuehrer's prelate. Der Spiegel 22/1961, May 24, 1961.
  5. ↑ Jakob Hommes: Catholic state and cultural thinking under National Socialism. In: Deutsches Volk (1933): 279–296, 1933.
  6. ↑ Jakob Hommes: Philosophy of life and education as a national and catholic task. Herder publishing house, Freiburg i. Br. 1934.
  7. ↑ Collection B 0034. Denazification Commissions. 1933-1958. Edited by Dieter Speck, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, 79085 Freiburg i. Br., 1996, pp. 13, 115.
  8. ^ Josef Schmucker: Prof. Dr. Jakob Hommes (1898–1966) , obituary, Regensburger Bistumsblatt , 1966.
personal data
SURNAME Hommes, Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic philosopher, writer, university professor and university rector
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Völklingen
DATE OF DEATH July 10, 1966
Place of death Munich